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BNP Paribas Open Indian Wells, California + ATP PREMIER M $4,500,000 96m/48q/32d outdoor: hard Plexipave Free Live Video: 1 Live Scores - in popup window draws: WTA: Q - main - D - OOP .html: results - OOP - schedule pics: DL - Y!: sports - news | WTA TV schedule: TC - FSN videos | interviews | audio: Rad.Ten. Indian Wells: radar - forecast - map PS Desert Sun: BNP Paribas Open #3 Svetlana Kuznetsova #4 Caroline Wozniacki #6 Victoria Azarenka #7 Elena Dementieva #8 Agnieszka Radwanska #9 Jelena Jankovic #10 Na Li #11 Samantha Stosur

Indian Wells: #9 Jelena Jankovic 5'9½" 130lb RH 2H-BH Indian Wells: #4 Caroline Wozniacki 5' 10" 128lb RH 2H-BH     tennis.quickfound.net tourney page: Indian Wells

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On Thursday afternoon at Indian Wells, in the quarterfinals of the BNP Paribas Open, the 2009 champ in Cincinnati and Marbella, 25-year-old 6th-seeded #9 (and former #1) Jelena Jankovic from Belgrade, Serbia, defeated this year's champ in Kuala Lumpur, 20-year-old 23rd-seeded #26 Alisa Kleybanova from Moscow, Russia, 6-4, 6-4 (photo shown).     Jelena put 71% of her 1st serves in the box, and won 67% of her 1st serve points and 57% of her 2nd serve points, while scoring on 3 of 6 break point opportunities. Alisa also reached break point against Jelena six times, but scored on only one of those occasions.     Jelena said: "Kleybanova is a tough opponent. You never know what you're going to get from her. Sometimes I have her on the run and she comes up with some unbelievable shots. I tried to stay focused and play the best I could, and I was able to get through this match. I'm really, really pleased...     "The more matches I play, the better I'm getting," said the Serb, whose good form has taken her to the No.1 ranking in the past. "That match against Errani was kind of a wake-up call. I was two points from losing the match. It wasn't my day. But I fought one point at a time and made it through. Then I was very aggressive against Peer. Today I did my best again and got through." WTA story     In the Indian Wells semifinals on Friday, Jelena will play the 2009 champion in Osaka, 25-year-old 8th-seeded #11 Samantha Stosur from Gold Coast, Australia, who defeated last year's champ in Bogota and Bastad, 27-year-old 28th-seeded #33 Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez from Barcelona, Spain, in Thursday's late quarterfinal, 6-3, 7-6(7).     Jelena leads Samantha 2-0 in career matches, but they have not played since 2007, and Sam has improved since then.     Polish Danish: In Friday's other semifinal, the 2009 US Open finalist (and champion at New Haven, Eastbourne, and Ponte Vedra Beach), 19-year-old 2nd-seeded #4 Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark (residence: Monte Carlo, Monaco), will play the 2008 Eastbourne champ, 20-year-old 5th-seeded #8 Agnieszka Radwanska from Krakow, Poland (Caroline is shown during her semifinal victory on Wednesday evening).     Caroline and Agnieszka know each other well. Although Caroline is Danish, her parents are both Polish and reside in Poland (Caroline's father, now her coach, was a professional soccer player in Denmark).     Caroline and Agnieszka are tied at 1-1 in career matches; Caro won their last meeting, on a hardcourt in the Stockholm semis in 2008, 6-4, 6-1.     (March 18, 2010) Former #1 Maria Sharapova has withdrawn from next week's tourney at Key Biscayne due to a right elbow bone bruise which is expected to keep her sidelined for three to six weeks. An MRI after her loss to Jie Zheng at Indian Wells revealed the injury. Former #1 Dinara Safina withdrew earlier due to a low back injury that has troubled her since last year.     The tennis.quickfound.net Indian Wells tourney page now holds 129 choice photos from this week's tourney, cropped & enhanced, and 23 postmatch quotes. Indian Wells player's blog by Daniela Hantuchova Finetune streaming music player popup:  18 playlists, 45+ full tracks each, 1300+ tracks total, free music, no registration, no commercials, no gimmicks. WTA SCOREBOARD: Indian Wells     ranks are for the previous week s=seed, #=rank, *=upset, LL=lucky loser     How do players get into the "draw"? Indian Wells, QFs, Wed-Thu noon loser's prize: $64,700; points: 250 #4 s2 Caroline Wozniacki DEN d #21 s18 Jie Zheng CHN 6-4, 4-6, 6-1 Wed *#8 Agnieszka Radwanska POL d #7 s4 Elena Dementieva RUS 6-4, 6-3 Wed #9 s6 Jelena Jankovic SRB d #26 s23 Alisa Kleybanova RUS 6-4, 6-4 Thu #11 s8 Samantha Stosur AUS d #33 s28 MJ Martinez Sanchez ESP 6-3, 7-6(7) Thu Indian Wells, SFs, Fri noon loser's prize: $150,000; points: 450 #4 s2 Caroline Wozniacki DEN v #8 Agnieszka Radwanska POL m4 7:30pm+ #9 s6 Jelena Jankovic SRB d #11 s8 Samantha Stosur AUS 6-2, 6-4 Indian Wells, Final, Sun, noon loser's prize: $350,000; points: 700 winner's prize: $700,000; points: 1000 #9 s6 Jelena Jankovic SRB v #4 C Wozniacki OR #8 A Radwanska Indian Wells, Doubles Final, Sat 11am losers' prize: $118,500 winners' prize: $237,000 Indian Wells, Withdrawals #1 Serena Williams USA #2 Dinara Safina RUS back injury #5 Venus Williams USA #30 Elena Vesnina RUS #32 Kateryna Bondarenko UKR knee injury #60 Anna-Lena Groenefeld GER left foot injury #83 Sania Mirza IND right wrist injury   WTA Mar 23-Apr 4: Miami Sony Ericsson Open Key Biscayne, Miami, FL + ATP PREMIER M $4,500,000 96m/48q/32d outdoor: hard Laykold Free Live Video Live Scores - in popup window draws: WTA tourney: draws - OOP results - tourney schedule pics: Y!: sports - news KB - news SE     WTA - tourney pics   TV sched interviews: tourney - ASAP Miami Herald: Tennis Miami: weather radar - forecast #1 Serena Williams #3 Svetlana Kuznetsova #4 Caroline Wozniacki #5 Venus Williams #6 Victoria Azarenka #7 Elena Dementieva #8 Agnieszka Radwanska #9 Jelena Jankovic #10 Na Li #11 Samantha Stosur     The Miami draws are not yet available as of this writing. The qualifying draws for this tourney will be posted on the Sunday before the start of play, and main draws will be posted on Monday. The links are above for your convenience when the draws become available.     In 2010 main draw play at Key Biscayne will being on Tuesday, March 23; in previous years main draw play began on Wednesday. WTA SCOREBOARD: Miami (Key Biscayne)     ranks are for the previous week s=seed, #=rank, *=upset, LL=lucky loser     How do players get into the "draw"? Miami, 1st Rd, Tue-Wed 10am loser's prize: $7,050; points: 5     projected seeds shown #1 s1 Serena Williams USA #3 s2 Svetlana Kuznetsova RUS #4 s3 Caroline Wozniacki DEN #5 s4 Venus Williams USA #6 s5 Victoria Azarenka BLR #7 s6 Elena Dementieva RUS #8 s7 Agnieszka Radwanska POL #9 s8 Jelena Jankovic SRB #10 s9 Na Li CHN #11 s10 Samantha Stosur AUS #12 s11 Flavia Pennetta ITA #14 s12 Vera Zvonareva RUS #15 s13 Yanina Wickmayer BEL #16 s14 Marion Bartoli FRA #17 s15 Kim Clijsters BEL #18 s16 Francesca Schiavone ITA #19 s17 Nadia Petrova RUS #20 s18 Shahar Peer ISR #21 s19 Aravane Rezai FRA #22 s20 Daniela Hantuchova SVK #23 s21 Jie Zheng CHN #24 s22 Alona Bondarenko UKR #25 s23 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova RUS #26 s24 Sabine Lisicki GER #27 s25 Alisa Kleybanova RUS #28 s26 Ana Ivanovic SRB #29 s27 Dominika Cibulkova SVK #30 s28 Agnes Szavay HUN #31 s29 Elena Vesnina RUS #33 s30 Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez ESP #34 s31 Anabel Medina Garrigues ESP #35 s32 Aleksandra Wozniak CAN #36 Maria Kirilenko RUS #37 Gisela Dulko ARG #38 Virginie Razzano FRA #39 Lucie Safarova CZE #40 Sorana Cirstea ROU #41 Melanie Oudin USA #42 Carla Suarez Navarro ESP     #43 Vera Dushevina RUS #44 Andrea Petkovic GER #45 Yaroslava Shvedova KAZ #46 Melinda Czink HUN #47 Sybille Bammer AUT #48 Patty Schnyder SUI #49 Sara Errani ITA #50 Olga Govortsova BLR #51 Alexandra Dulgheru ROU #52 Polona Hercog SLO #53 Magdalena Rybarikova SVK #54 Timea Bacsinszky SUI #55 Tathiana Garbin ITA #56 Shuai Peng CHN #57 Roberta Vinci ITA #58 Iveta Benesova CZE #59 Ekaterina Makarova RUS #61 Petra Kvitova CZE #62 Kimiko Date Krumm JPN #64 Stefanie Voegele SUI #67 Lucie Hradecka CZE #69 Julia Goerges GER #70 Anna Chakvetadze RUS #71 Alberta Brianti ITA #72 Barbora Zahlavova Strycova CZE #73 Kristina Barrois GER #76 Vania King USA #80 Alizé Cornet FRA #81 Ioana Raluca Olaru ROU #82 Alla Kudryavtseva RUS #83 Jill Craybas USA #85 Julie Coin FRA #92 Kaia Kanepi EST #123 sr55 Anne Keothavong GBR #179 sr59 Tamira Paszek AUT #411 sr20 Katarina Srebotnik SLO #NR sr72 Ashley Harkleroad USA #NR wc Justine Henin BEL Miami, 2nd Rd, Thu-Fri 10am loser's prize: $11,500; points: 50 Miami, 3rd Rd, Sat-Sun 10am loser's prize: $18,740; points: 80 Miami, 4th Rd, Mon 11am loser's prize: $32,000; points: 140 Miami, QFs, Tue-Wed 11am loser's prize: $64,700; points: 250 Miami, SFs, Thu 1pm & 9pm loser's prize: $150,000; points: 450 Miami, Final, Sat, 12:30pm loser's prize: $350,000; points: 700 winner's prize: $700,000; points: 1000 Miami, Doubles Final, Sun after ATP singles final, 1pm losers' prize: $118,500 winners' prize: $237,000 Miami, Qualifying Finals, Tue Mar 23 10am losers' prizes: q1 $1,050 1pt; q2 $2,100 20pts; qualifier 30 points Miami, Withdrawals #2 Dinara Safina RUS low back injury #13 Maria Sharapova RUS right elbow bone bruise #32 Kateryna Bondarenko UKR knee injury #60 Anna-Lena Groenefeld GER #84 Sania Mirza IND right wrist injury #89 Urszula Radwanska POL   WTA Mar 1-7: Monterrey Monterrey: #27 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 5'9" 149lb RH 2H-BH Monterrey: #24 Daniela Hantuchova 5'11¼" 123lb RH 2H-BH Monterrey Open, Monterrey, MEX INTL $220,000 32m/32q/16d outdoor: hard Live Scores draws: WTA: Q - main - D - OOP pics: DL - Y!: sports - Mexico | WTA - MexSport - Google     On Sunday in Monterrey, Mexico, in the final of the Abierto Monterrey, 18-year-old 3rd-seeded #27 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova from Moscow, Russia, won her first WTA singles title by defeating the 2002 & 2007 Indian Wells champion, 26-year-old 2nd-seeded #24 (and former #5) Daniela Hantuchova of Slovakia (residence: Monte Carlo, Monaco), 1-6, 6-1, 6-0 (Daniela is shown during the match, and Anastasia with the hardware afterward). Anastasia's prize is $37,000; Daniela's is $19,000.     The tennis.quickfound.net Monterrey tourney page holds 24 photos from this week's tourney, plus 8 player quotes.   WTA Feb 22-28: Acapulco & Kuala Lumpur Acapulco: #5 Venus Williams 6'1" 160lb RH 2H-BH Kuala Lumpur: #31 Alisa Kleybanova 5'11" 159lb RH 2H-BH Abierto Mexicano, Acapulco, MEX INTL $220,000 32m/32q/16d outdoor: red clay Live Scores draws: WTA: Q - main - D - OOP pics: DL - Y!: sports - news | WTA Malaysia Open Kuala Lumpur INTL $220,000 32m/32q/16d outdoor: hard Live Scores draws: WTA: Q - main - D - OOP pics: DL - Y!: sports - news - WTA     On Saturday night in Acapulco, in the final of the Abierto Mexicano (Mexican Open), last year's Acapulco champ (and last week's champ in Dubai), 29-year-old top-seeded #5 (and former #1) Venus Williams from Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, won again, defeating 19-year-old 8th-seeded #59 Polona Hercog from Maribor, Slovenia, 2-6, 6-2, 6-3 (Venus is shown with the hardware and headwear after the match).     Venus and Polona had never before met on the field of combat. Venus's prize is $37,000, Polona's is $19,000. Polona picked up an extra $5,500 by winning the doubles final, teamed with Barbora Zahlavova Strycova, defeating Sara Errani & Roberta Vinci, 2-6, 6-1, (10-2).     On Sunday in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in the final of the new WTA Malaysia Open, 20-year-old 4th-seeded #31 Alisa Kleybanova from Moscow, Russia, won her first WTA singles title by defeating her compatriot, this year's champion in Paris and Sydney, 28-year-old top-seeded #7 Elena Dementieva (residence: Monte Carlo, Monaco), 6-3, 6-2 (Alisa is shown with the hardware after the match).     Alisa and Elena, too, had not previously met in WTA singles. Alisa's prize is $37,000, Elena's is $19,000.     The tennis.quickfound.net Acapulco & Kuala Lumpur tourney page holds 88 choice photos from this week's tourneys, cropped & enhanced.   WTA Feb 14-21: Dubai, Memphis, Bogota Bogota: #176 M Duque Marino 5' 7" 128lb RH 2H-BH Dubai: #5 Venus Williams 6'1" 160lb RH 2H-BH Memphis: #16 Maria Sharapova 6' 2" 130lb RH 2H-BH Dubai Tennis Champ UAE PREMIER 5 $2mil 56m/32q/28d outdoor: hard (DT II) Live Scores draws: WTA: Q - main - D - OOP | pics: DL - Y!: sports - news | WTA | video Cellular South Cup, Memphis, TN INTL $220,000 32m/32q/16d indoor: hard (Plexipave) Live Scores draws: WTA: Q - main - D - OOP | pics: DL - Y!: sports - news | WTA Copa Colsanitas, Bogota, COL INTL $220,000 32m/32q/16d outdoor: red clay Live Scores draws: WTA: Q - main - D - OOP | pics: DL - Y!: sports - news | WTA | video     On Saturday in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, in the final of the Dubai Tennis Championships, last year's Dubai champ (and 5-time Wimbledon champion), 29-year-old #6 (and former #1) Venus Williams from Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, won again, defeating the 2009 champion in Miami, Memphis, and Brisbane, 20-year-old 4th-seeded #6 Victoria Azarenka of Belarus (residence: Scottsdale, Arizona), 6-3, 7-5 (photo shown). Venus's prize is $350,000, Victoria's is $175,000.     In the Memphis Cellular South Cup final on Saturday night, last year's Tokyo Pan Pacific Open champ (and three-time Grand Slam champion), 22-year-old #16 (and former #1) Maria Sharapova of Russia (with residences in Manhattan Beach, California & Bradenton, Florida) defeated the 2006 Memphis champion, 26-year-old qualifier #105 (career-high: #29) Sofia Arvidsson from Halmstad, Sweden, 6-2, 6-1 (Maria is shown holding the glassware after the match). Maria's prize is $37,000, Sofia's is $19,000.     In the Bogota Copa Colsanitas final on Sunday, 20-year-old locally-born-and-residing #176 (career-high: #99) Mariana Duque Marino of Colombia defeated 22-year-old 5th-seeded #85 (career-high: #67) Angelique Kerber from Kiel, Germany, 6-4, 6-3 (Mariana is shown with the hardware after the match). Mariana's prize is $37,000, Angelique's is $19,000.     The tennis.quickfound.net Dubai, Memphis & Bogota tourney page holds 159 choice photos from this week's tourneys, cropped & enhanced.   WTA Feb 8-14: Paris-Pattaya Pattaya: #9 Vera Zvonareva 5' 7¾" 130½lb RH 2H-BH Paris: #7 Elena Dementieva 5'11" 141lb RH 2H-BH GDF Suez Open, Paris, FRA PREMIER $700,000 30m/32q/16d indoor: hard - Live Scores draws: WTA: Q - main - D - OOP | videos - pics: DL - Y!: sports - news | WTA Pattaya Women's Open, THA INTL $220,000 32m/32q/16d outdoor: hard Live Scores draws: WTA: Q - main - D - OOP | pics: DL - Y!: sports - news | WTA     On Sunday in Paris, in the final of the GDF Suez Open, this year's champion in Sydney, 28-year-old top-seeded #7 (career-high: #3) Elena Dementieva of Russia (residence: Monte Carlo, Monaco), defeated the 2008 Forest Hills champion, 23-year-old unseeded #46 (and former #22) Lucie Safarova from Brno, Czech Republic, 6(6)-7, 6-1, 6-4 (Elena is shown with the new "lunatic" hardware after the match). Elena's prize is $107,000; Lucie's is $56,000.     Meanwhile in Pattaya City, Thailand, in the final of the Pattaya Women's Open, last year's Pattaya (and Indian Wells) champion, 25-year-old top-seeded #9 (career-high: #5) Vera Zvonareva from Moscow, Russia, defeated last year's 's-Hertogenbosch champ (and a 2008 Wimbledon quarterfinalist), 32-year-old unseeded #87 (and Thai #1, WTA career-high #19) Tamarine Tanasugarn from Bangkok, Thailand, 6-4, 6-4 (Vera is shown with the ceramicware after the match). Vera's prize is $37,000; Tammy's is $19,000.     The tennis.quickfound.net Paris Indoor & Pattaya tourney page holds 89 select photos from this week's tourneys, cropped & enhanced.   WTA Jan 18-30: Australian Open Melbourne: #1 Serena Williams 5'9" 135lb RH 2H-BH Melbourne: #NR Justine Henin 5' 5¾" 126lb RH 1H-BH Melbourne: 5th Aussie Open Title 12th Grand Slam Singles Title Australian Open, Melbourne, AUS Grand Slam - event stats 128 players - outdoor: hard matches: Live Scores - OOP - results draws: WS, .pdf - mixed doubles pics: DL | Y!: sports - news | WTA | interviews 2010 WTA video & audio interviews click for Australian Open tourney page, with 263+ photos cropped & enhanced, and many quotes       On Saturday in Melbourne, in the final of the 2010 Australian Open, the 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2009 AO champ, 28-year-old top-seeded #1 Serena Williams from Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, won again, defeating the 2004 Aussie Open champ, 27-year-old unranked former #1 Justine Henin of Belgium (residence: Monte Carlo, Monaco) 6-4, 3-6, 6-2 (photos shown).   WTA Aug 31-Sept 13: US Open Flushing Meadows: #9 Caroline Wozniacki 5'10" 128lb RH 2H-BH Flushing Meadows: #NR Kim Clijsters 5'8½" 150lb RH 2H-BH Flushing Meadows: 2nd US Open Title in 5th GS singles final US Open Flushing Meadows, NY Grand Slam $21,600,000 128 players | outdoor: hard | stats Draws: WS pdf - WTA - mix doub Women: qualif - singles - doub photos: Y!: sports - BBC | CBS | WTA | Video: highlights - '09 WTA videos interviews click for US Open tourney page, with 269 photos cropped & enhanced, and many quotes        On Sunday night at Flushing Meadows, in the final of the 2009 US Open, the 2005 champ, who returned to play this summer after a two-year retirement, 26-year-old unranked (and former #1) Kim Clijsters from Bree, Belgium, won her 2nd US Open title by defeating this year's New Haven champ, 19-year-old 9th-seeded #9 Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark (res: Monte Carlo, Monaco), 7-5, 6-3.     Kim's prize is $1,600,000; Caroline's is $800,000 (Caroline & Kim are shown during the match, and Kim with the hardware at Times Square on Monday). tennis.quickfound.net tourney page: 2009 US Open   WTA June 22-July 5 Wimbledon Wimbledon: #2 Serena Williams 5'9" 135lb RH 2H-BH Wimbledon: #3 Venus Williams 6'1" 160lb RH 2H-BH Wimbledon: 3rd Wimbledon Title 11th GS Singles Title The Championships Wimbledon, GBR Grand Slam Prize$: £11,812,000 (all events) 128 players - outdoor: grass matches: statistics - Live Scores - OOP - results draws: W sing, pdf - mix doub - women's: qualif. - singles - doub pics: Y! sport - news - UK - WTA | free intv & hlite videos - wallpaper click for 2009 Wimbledon tourney page, with quotes & 198+ choice photos, cropped & enhanced       Williams' Arena: On Saturday in London, in the final of The Championships at Wimbledon, the 2002 & '03 champ, 27-year-old 2nd-seeded #2 Serena Williams from Palm Beach Gardens, FL, won a third time by defeating her older sister, the 2000, '01, '05 '07 & 0 champ, 28-year-old 3rd-seeded #3 Venus Williams, 7-6(3), 6-2 (photo shown). tennis.quickfound.net tourney page: 2009 Wimbledon   WTA: May 24-Jun 7   French Open Roland Garros: #7 Svetlana Kuznetsova 5' 8½" 161lb RH 2H-BH Roland Garros: #1 Dinara Safina 5'11½" 154½lb RH 2H-BH Roland Garros: 2nd Grand Slam Title 11th WTA Singles Title French Open Roland Garros, FRA Grand Slam outdoor: red clay - results - stats draws: all WTA, pdf - xd - women's: qual - singles - doub   men's: qual - singles - doub photos: Y! sports   Y! news - Y! France | WTA - videos: mp4 downloads - embedded text: news - interviews - information site for players - 2009 RG Players Guide, .pdf click for 2009 French Open tourney page, with quotes & 256+ choice photos, cropped & enhanced       On Saturday at Roland Garros, in the final of the 2009 French Open, the 2004 US Open champion, 23-year-old 7th-seeded # 7 Svetlana Kuznetsova of Russia (residence: Monte Carlo, Monaco), won a second Grand Slam singles title, defeating last year's French Open finalist, 23-year-old top-seeded # 1 Dinara Safina of Russia (res: also Monaco), 6-4, 6-2 (photos shown). tennis.quickfound.net tourney page: 2009 French Open

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WTN Photos Inside Tennis Photos by Fans Sportal.au Tennis Photo Galleries Sporting-Heroes.net has 550 large photos of WTA & ATP players, including many of players of the 70s & 80s that are difficult to find online. Current Tennis TV Listings: • Tennis One: Tennis TV This Month • ESPN & ESPN2: Tennis Today • Tennis.com: TV Schedule • The Tennis Channel: Schedule • Sky Sports: Live Tennis • TV Guide   Sports Sites' Tennis News Pages: CNN-Sports Illustrated: Tennis covers tennis with AP (and sometimes Reuters) stories. Occasionally the stories have a mid-size photo or two, but not as many as they used to, and the pics are no longer linked to large versions. BBC Sport: Tennis reduced the length of most stories in 2005. They often have small photos, but never large ones. They also have an online Tennis Academy. CBS Sportsline.com: Tennis coverage is basically AP, but you have to find photos on a separate page (listed above). ESPN: Tennis is basically AP; they have improved their layout & navigation.   Tennis-Specific Sites: Tennis.com did a complete makeover of their website in 2005, again in 2006, and again in 2010, and Chrissie forgot to call and tell me the URLs had changed every time. The site has statistics, feature stories, results, events information, and hundreds of excellent tennis instruction articles and tips from the publishers of Tennis Magazine.     You can search the very useful feature article, "Your Game" instruction, and message board forum sections of the Tennis.com website with this form. Try to be specific--if you simply search for "backhand" you will get countless results, all the articles in which the word "backhand" is used. find this:   in: articles instruction forums   TennisForm.com is "the definitive online information source for serious tennis bettors." Jiro's Tennis Page, which focuses on Thai players, has much useful general WTA & ATP info, including main draw entry lists for many WTA, ATP, and ITF tourneys. Also try mytennis.it for entry info. Pro Tennis Fan is a blog site covering both the WTA & ATP, with good player-specific weblogs for many WTA players. Peter Bodo's Tennis World Blog Bob Larson's Tennis News Tennis Live is an all-tennis sports talk radio show. Tennis-Pool.com is a 100% free online fantasy tennis game, where you can pick and operate your own teams of WTA & ATP players. String Forum has a database of info on over 1400 tennis racket strings. Racquet Research although not recently updated, has good pages such as "Introduction to Racquet Science," and racquet selection help. Operation Doubles: Tennis Doubles Strategy and Tactics covers the three basic doubles formations/strategies, position, switching, poaching, and much more. Go Tennis requires free registration, but they are loaded with tennis news and info. Tennis Week has a very large home page (long load), but has match summaries (and an archive of them) you might not find elsewhere. Tenniscom.com is a comprehensive tennis site for Spanish readers. College Tennis Online has current collegiate scores, news, and features. College and Junior Tennis adds scores, news and info from and about Junior tournaments. JuniorTennis.com features up-to-date coverage of juniors tourneys, plus extensive junior players info and photos.   WTA Player-Specific Sites: Martina Hingis & Anna Kournikova have their own subdomains at quickfound.net. DSafina.com official DinaraSafina.com SerenaWilliams.com official Elena Dementieva official jj-jelenajankovic.com official JelenaJankovic.net ElevenByVenus.com official Zvonareva.ru official Ana Ivanovic official VikaAzarenkaTennis.com official CarolineWozniacki.dk official MariaSharapova.com official MariaWorld (Sharapova- 4700+ photos) Sharapova Masha (good bio info) Kuznetsova Fanpage Patty-Schnyder.ch official, in German DanielaHantuchova.com official Anna Chakvetadze official Anna's World (Chakvetadze) alize-cornet.com official en.Nadia-Petrova.ru official Maria Kirilenko official Agnes Szavay official - in Hungarian NicoleVaidisova.com Golovin Attitude Tatiana-Golovin.net Ashley-Harkleroad.com K-lina.com (Karolina Sprem) Mary-Pierce.org Jelena-Dokic.com Anastasia-Myskina.com Myskina.ru official, in Russian Jennifer Capriati Monica-Seles.com KimClijsters.be official 100% Justine Henin official Justine-Henin.net (many photos)   WTA Specific Sites: The WTA Tour since 1996, which received a major makeover in May, 2007, provides match scores and other stats for all WTA players & events, including head-to-head matchup info, updated weekly. Blogspot WTA Women's Tennis Apparel is a blog about what the ladies are wearing. From January 2000 through March 2001, CNNSI published the Kristina Brandi Tennis Diary, a "diary" kept every 2 weeks by WTA player Kristina Brandi, showing what life is like for touring WTA players.   Tennis History: "The 700-year-old French game of tennis, traditionally as much a lady's as a man's game, was introduced to the U.S. in 1874 by a woman, Mary E. Outerbridge..." See more from this Sept. 9, 1946, TIME Magazine cover story on women's tennis and 1946 Wimbledon and Forest Hills champ Pauline Betz now on the Tennis Articles page. TIME Magazine, May 23, 1955:     In her first column, the San Diego Union's new Women's Sports Editor Maureen ("Little Mo") Connolly, retired as the world's greatest lady tennis star at a ripe old 21, showed that sports punditry is as easy for her as smashing a tennis ball down an opponents throat.     Lamented Little Mo in great pontifical style: "[On] the American scene today ... we're reducing sports to a cluster of numbers on a board ... We ... are expecting our champions to be stadium automatons, the human equivalents of the balls in a super pinball machine ... We're watching for the numbers to light up and forgetting the play." TIME articles: Maureen Connolly's 1st US Open & Wimbledon titles Book Excerpt: The Courts of Babylon: Dawn of the Pro Tennis Tours more tennis history book excerpts in the nav menu (top of page) WTA Top 20 Rankings 1989-2006 International Tennis Hall of Fame WTA Historical Bios Lawn Tennis 1873-1938 Pictorial History of Tennis 16-page .pdf Sportsline Tennis History includes a listing of Grand Slam champions, the winners of the most career singles titles, and more. The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club site still has some good Wimbledon history pages. The USOpen.org History has stats and year-by-year finals descriptions since 1968 (but nothing about the Forest Hills and Newport Casino US Nationals before the "Open era"). Other Tennis Stats & Records: Although crippled by intrusive advertising, Tennis Corner offers excellent single page summaries of ATP and WTA player statistics. And their WTA & ATP Results Archive 1968-2003 has records of ATP and WTA tournament champions and final scores going back to the mid-1970's, and for major tournaments back to 1968 (the first year of "Open" professional tennis).   Free Online Tennis Books: Lawn Tennis 1908 with a chapter by     Blanche Bingley Hillyard Lawn Tennis for Ladies 1910 by Dorothea K. Douglass Lambert Chambers Tennis for Women 1916 by     Molla Bjurstedt Mallory Lawn Tennis for Girls 1920 by     Suzanne Lenglen Lawn Tennis 1886 by James Dwight Game of Lawn Tennis 1888 by     "Cavendish" of The Field   Tennis Website Search: The DMOZ Open Directory searches for keywords in website titles and descriptions (not page content). You can limit your search to the Tennis links category, or search all sports links. find this: in: All Tennis College Tennis Tennis Players All Sports   Google Usenet Forums: rec.sport.tennis alt.tennis     Fans of Serbians Jelena Jankovic (who has one Serbian and one Montenegrin parent) and Ana Ivanovic might like to see the new Serbia News & Links page, which includes 2 articles by Frank G. Carpenter describing Belgrade & nearby farms in 1925, and the new Montenegro News & Links page, with three very interesting articles by David Ker, who climbed the Black Mountain to meet Prince Nikita in 1881.     If you are a coffee fan like Patty Schnyder, then you might enjoy the eighteen classic New York Times & Los Angeles Times coffee & tea articles from 1854 to 1916 at coffee.quickfound.net.     If you are a chocolate fan like Kim Clijsters, then you might enjoy the sixteen classic New York Times & Los Angeles Times chocolate, cocoa, sugar, candy & snack articles from 1891 to 1920 at chocolate.quickfound.net.     Apologies for the typographical errors on this page occasionally. These cut-and-paste errors result when faulty brain wiring impairs one person trying to keep up a large website. I try to keep errors to a minimum, but some always creep in.

WTA News; Tennis News

  News Briefs:

    (March 5, 2010) The WTA has posted a new page showing "all-time" (which means since 1989!) and current year's service speed leaders. However, a note at the bottom of the page shows that the data, is only from show courts at a fraction of the tourneys (12 events this year).
    The actual all-time WTA service speed record is 130 miles per hour, set by then 35-year-old Brenda Schultz-McCarthy in the 1st round of qualifying at Cincinnati in 2006. The WTA should not list "all-time" service speed leaders without making this perfectly clear.

Ana in SI-SE

(Feb 9, 2010) 2008 French Open champion Ana Ivanovic is featured in the 2010 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition, which is available online now.     (Feb 3, 2010) Former WTA #1 Martina Hingis will play a full schedule of World Team Tennis events next summer. Martina has committed to play 14 WTT matches this year; she will play for whatever team chooses her in the February 11 "marquee" player draft. In an AP phone interview, Martina also ruled out a return to WTA play "at this time," primarily due to the extensive travel required. AP story - hingis.quickfound.net     (Jan 17, 2010) 29-year-old former WTA #1 Martina Hingis might return to WTA play. Martina defeated former #1 Lindsay Davenport 6-4, 6-4 in an exhibition match in Berlin, Germany, on Sunday.     After the exhibition, reporters asked Martina if she might return to the WTA Tour. Martina said: I can not imagine a life without tennis. It's still so much fun for me. I'd like to play more exhibition games and see what happens. Past that, I just don't know at the moment."     Asked if she, too, might return to WTA play, 33-year-old Lindsay said: "If I play again it will only be to selected events and only then for fun."

    Martina has won 43 WTA singles titles, including 5 Grand Slam titles, and 37 WTA doubles titles, and has a 548-133 record in WTA singles matches. Martina was banned from WTA & ITF tennis for 2 years in 2007 after failing a test for prohibited substances (which she vehemently denied doing), and announced her retirement after deciding not to appeal the ban. AFP story

    (Jan 11, 2010) Former WTA #1 Maria Sharapova has signed a new endorsement contract with Nike which could pay her as much as $70 million over the next eight years.
    In 2007 Maria signed a racquet endorsement contract with Prince which will pay her around $25 million dollars over 10 years. Maria's previous deal with Prince, a five-year contract, was signed when she was 14 years old. As is often the case with endorsement contracts, the deal includes a base pay, plus incentives for high rankings and tournament performance.
    Maria also has (or has had) endorsement contracts with Gatorade & Tropicana, Colgate - Palmolive, Motorola (expired in 2007), Parlux Fragrances, Canon, watchmaker TAG Heuer, Land Rover, Nike, and others, plus Japan-only deals with Honda & Pepsi, which make her the highest-paid female athlete in the world, earning an estimated $23 to $25 million a year.

(Dec 5, 2009) Former #1 Maria Sharapova defeated South & Central American #1 Gisela Dulko in two exhibition events in South America. The original schedule for the exhibitions was revised, and a match planned for Gisela's hometown, Buenos Aires, Argentina, was dropped.     On December 2, in Santiago, Chile, Maria defeated Gisela 6-1, 6-3, and on December 5 in Porto Feliz, Brazil, Maria won again, this time by a slim margin, 6-3, 3-6, (10-7).     Gisela defeated Maria at Wimbledon in 2009; Maria had won their two prior meetings. Maria & Gisela after their close match on Dec 5

    (Sept 22, 2009 revised) 27-year-old former WTA #1 Justine Henin announced on Tuesday that she will return to the WTA Tour in January. Justine made the announcement on Belgian television; prominent Belgian newspapers had earlier declared that Justine was ready to reveal her intention to return.
    Three months notice are required for players returning from retirement, to meet anti-doping rules, so Justine's return to WTA play will be in Australia next January. Justine will play exhbitions in Charleroi, Belgium, and in Dubai, to prepare for next year. Justine has accepted wild card entries for January's Brisbane International, Sydney International, and Australian Open; after that she will have earned ranking points in 3 tourneys (required minimum for an "entry ranking"). She intends to continue playing at least through the London Olympics in 2012, when she will be 30 years old.
    On her official website, Justine said: "After 15 months of absence, I am pleased to announce to you that I’ve decided to begin my second tennis career. I don’t want to describe it as a comeback. It’s a new life that opens for me."
    Justine retired on May 14, 2008. She had won 41 WTA singles titles, starting with Antwerp in 1999 and ending with Antwerp in 2008, including the 2003, '05, '06, & '07 French Open, the 2003 & '07 US Open, and the 2004 Australian Open. She had a 493-107 record in singles matches. AP story - AP story 2

Monica in Newport, July 11

(July 11, 2009) Former WTA # 1 Monica Seles was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame today. ESPN story     35-year-old Monica formally announced her retirement from pro tennis in 2008. Monica had a 595-122 won-lost record in singles, and won 53 WTA singles titles, 6 WTA doubles titles, and $14,891,762 in prize money.     Despite a 2-year gap in her career (after she was stabbed in the back by a fan in Germany in 1993), Monica won 9 Grand Slam singles titles, beginning with the 1990 French Open, and ending with the 1996 Australian Open.     Monica was still ranked in the top 10 in 2003 when she was forced to stop playing by a left foot stress fracture which never healed properly (the same type of injury that led the chronic back pain which prevents Anna Kournikova from playing). 1996 book excerpt: Monica, by Monica Seles

    (Feb 11, 2009) Maria Kirilenko, Daniela Hantuchova, and Tatiana Golovin are all featured in the 2009 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition, which is available online now.


    (Dec 14, 2008) Former WTA # 12 Tatiana Golovin will not play in the 2009 Australian Open due to ongoing back pain and inflammation at the "sacrospinalis-iliac crest".
    In the French magazine L'Equipe in November, 2008, Tatiana said: "As I haven’t played for almost one year, it is easy to say : 'Golovin is going to retire.' I can tell you now that it is not the case. I still have pain in my back, I don’t practice, but I am still totally hopeful to play again soon. It will be in a few weeks, months or even in one year, but my career is not over."
    Tatiana had surgery on March 12, 2008 to remove a cyst that was causing pain. While the doctors had the hood open, they decided to remove her appendix as well, just to be on the safe side. Tatiana hoped to be playing again by the French Open. Tatiana played one complete match at the German Open, then withdrew, one by one, from each subsequent tourney, as she never quite reached playable condition. golovin-attitude.com

    (Jan 5, 2005) The WTA has made a 6-year deal with mobile phone manufacturer Sony Ericsson to become the primary WTA Tour global sponsor. The price? $88 million.

    (Jan 6, 2004 revised) Wimbledon will have a new retractable roof for Centre Court in place in 2009, officials announced. Construction will begin after The Championships in July, 2006. The 2007 Championships will be played with no roof at all (the current partial roof removed), a new fixed partial roof will be in place in 2008, and the retractable roof completed in 2009. The roof will take 10 minutes to deploy, so Centre Court rain delays of up to 30 minutes will still be possible, but the roof is being installed to assure TV networks of almost continuous coverage, even if it rains. The arena's capacity will also be increased from 13,800 to 15,000.
    AELTC Long-Term Plan - original BBC story.

2004 Wimbledon, 2006 US Open, and 2008 Australian Open champion Maria Sharapova of Russia is featured in the 2006 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition. Click on the photo to see the SI Swimsuit pages online, including 22 pics of Maria looking very nice.